Brotherston Family History
Brotherston Name Meaning
from the lands of Brotherstone (E Lothian) earlier Brothirstanys or from Brotherstones near Saint Boswells (Roxburghs). The place-name is apparently Scots for ‘stones of (a man called) Brother’ or ‘of a brother (monk friar)’.
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016